well hello my family! how are you guys all doing on this wonderful day before thanksgiving? I hope you are all doing great. It was nice to hear about your week and I was very happy to hear about tyson. I am sure he was a great missionary even though he didnt get to serve in the best mission in the world haha. did you tell him sorry that i didnt go to his farewell two years ago? i still feel bad about that. maybe he has forgotten about that by now. luckily, i am not the one that just got home though. i got lots of time to serve here!!!! i guess i will tell you about my week though.
first of all, i got to play football. and i am talking about american football. i played right after i talked to you guys last p day. it was so sweet to play. the other guys thought i had decent hands. we played a couple games of three on three two hand touch. then we called all the guys in the whole park to play with us. we were playing in the assistants area. there were about 30 kids playing with us and they all loved it. we split up into teams and each team had an american quarterback with another 5 little brazillians running all over the place. it was so fun. then we invited them to go to the church to play soccer that night with some of the members. a lot of them went too. it was a great way to do missionary work. everyone that passed by sat and watched for a little bit and then started playing. the assistants have got the best area i have ever seen too!!! we worked in their area last wednesday. their church is almost as pretty as the church i had in jundiai. and the members help so much. every night there are over 30 non members at the church for the english class or soccer on the church's court. it is so sweet. it really was a good exchange with the assistants. i would like to work with them a little more. i didnt have any kind of relationship with either of the assistants and got a little bit annoyed when they called me just ask about numbers and stuff but now i actually like talking to them. it was a great exchange on their part. we are helping our zone to put everything into practice that they taught us.
our week went pretty well even though we didnt have a full week. the zone was the best in the whole mission. we always have the best numbers in the whole mission! the missionaries here are so good! they are the best and we were blessed. we are so united too. it is way sweet! everyone is starting to baptize now too. it is so nice to have people think that i am good as a zone leader just cuz the missionaries in the zone rock ha! yup i am lucky!
in our area, the baptism didnt go through. we are still helping darci to get over smoking. but this week we have 4 possible baptisms. abel is a younger kid that has been going to seminary. he is great. he is prepared but thinks it is a little to soon. we are trying to help him to realize that baptism is the next step he needs to make. we have darci and rodrigo that could be baptized. it has been a while since i have been teaching them. they are probably the investigators that i have taught for the longest time without leaving because they were taking to long. i just have felt that they will get there. they really have moved alot this week and they are totally gonna get baptized. it is just a matter of time now. once darci stops smoking! our other investigator is going to baptized for sure. it was a referrel from a good active member family. it is a member's dad that has know the church for a long time. but now he is on his death bed and has asked to be baptized. his family really wants him to be baptized. he has two grandsons that are bishops in são paulo. he and one of his grandsons are the only ones in the family that arent members yet. he wont have any problems with any commandments because he cant talk or even walk by himself. he understands everything and gives thumbs up or thumbs down. he gets really emotional during the lessons and he is pretty happy about his baptism. he probably has a hard time understanding two gringos though!
things are going great though. i am pretty happy with the investigators that we have. they are all so great. the only thing we are lacking is time. we need more time to teach all of them. it would be so nice to have splits every night. maybe in these next weeks we can marks some more splits.
thanks for everything though! you guys are the best! i love you guys! i really was blessed to be part of this family. you guys really have helped me tons in my life and my mission. i am so happy that was born where i was and grew up in the good little town of Iona. that was the best place for me. i had lots of friends that helped me to get to where i am today. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! (i know i said that last week, but i guess this week it really will be thanksgiving). have a good thanksgiving week!
love,
elder long
p.s. i got those songs mom. thanks for sending them!
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